Cambrian Mountains Wind Turbine Protest Rally

On Sunday Mar 6th over 250 people gathered at proposed Nant y Moch windfarm site to show their oppostion to plans to cover this wild and wonderful area with 88 giant wind turbines. There were no NIMBYs. No one lives here. It is one of the most sparsely populated areas in Europe. Protesters had come from as far afield as London and Yorkshire.

The rally was addressed by Jim Perrin, mountaineer and travel writer. who has lung cancer. FreeRein horses Morgan and Poppy carried Jim to the summit from where he gave an informative and impassioned address. Much of what he said was of course well known to protesters – the inability of wind power to replace fossil fuels, its vast cost, its impact on fuel poverty. None of which is disputed by the wind industry. He also mentioned that the beneficaries included David Camerons father-in-law who draws vast sums from the turbines on his land and Nick Clegg’s wife who is a director of a Spanish company which manufactures turbines.

But the real tragedgy of wind turbines is not that they destroy scenery & impoverish the poor. It is this. The £ multi-billions used on them could be spent on developing a source of power which could replace fossil fuels and even nuclear power. Both of these are currently indispensible to a modern industrialised world.

Cambrian mountains wind turbine protest rally